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The third article in Anarchist Studies 34.1 is by Tom Goyens (@tomgoyens.bsky.social) , 'Rudolf Rocker in Exile: Reimagining Anarchism in an Age of Catastrophe, 1933-1958'. (4/7) bit.ly/41dZjYO

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Today in 1906, one hundred and twenty years ago, the German American socialists and later anarchist Johann Most died at age 60 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read about his remarkable life: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

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Preview our chat with @tomgoyens.bsky.social on his recent biography of German rabble-rouser and anarchist, Johann Most via our patreon membership of $3+/month www.patreon.com/posts/life-i...

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It's getting real! Mock up book cover designs are in for my next book "The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire" (Liverpool UP, 2026)

Happy Birthday to Johann Most, the German-American agitator & pivotal figure in the development of anarchism in the US & socialism in Germany! Most is the subject of @tomgoyens.bsky.social's new book, available now! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... 📷️: Courtesy of @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

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We are trialling the new, update version of the List of Digitized Anarchist Periodicals (LIDIAP). In the future, it will be easier to suggest new periodicals to add to the database. LIDIAP is an invaluable database for anyone working on the history of anarchism. lidiap.ficedl.info?fbclid=I

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Here is the voice of sportcaster Johnny Most (1923-1993), grandson of anarchist orator Johann Most (1846-1906) www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... youtu.be/2qBws8A01TI

IT'S HERE...

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

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Gonna be on @democracynow.org this morning (8 est)

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Now the script of Charlie Chaplin’s unfinished final film is to be published, having been pieced together from drafts, storyboards and sketches, on which he had been working before his death in 1977, at the age of 88. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Boycott Disney everywhere.

Coming in December 2025 from Univ of Illinois Press!!!

if fascists are targeting your community i've written 3 guides to help. plz share! "40 Ways to Fight Fascists" spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/f... "Six Things to Do If You Become the Target of Online Harassment" www.patreon.com/posts/85220523 A guide to 30 more Guides www.patreon.com/posts/101459...

The release of personally identifiable information that was not relevant to the government’s Title VI investigation was improper. The Trump admin is investigating how the UC responded to claims of antisemitism, not the individuals named in the complaints. The AAUP condemns this move by UC Berkeley.

An appeal to help preserve a unique archive of recorded scientific talks.

The Resistance Is Inevitable. We’re sick & tired of ICE & FBI agents profiling, harassing, & violently arresting our neighbors. #wearealldc Incredible turnout in DC yesterday, including a strong AAUP contingent. @aaupmason.bsky.social @gwaaup.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social

Nice advance in origin-of-life research: scientists get RNA and amino acids to spontaneously attach to each other (RNA aminoacylation). Also, @404media.co is doing good work! www.404media.co/scientists-m...

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A podcast on the path of a mysterious translation published in the first anarcho-communist newspaper run by women in Buenos Aires in 1896. The journey takes us from the Central European region of Silesia to 1840s Paris and the Haymarket massacre in Chicago in 1887. blogs.uoc.edu/anarchist-tr...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

An audio documentary about Colin Ward which tells the story of anarchy in the UK through his life and work, and an alternative history of the 20th century seen from an anarchist perspective. www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/cl...

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Apollo 11. Rarely seen shot of Eagle, the Moon and Earthrise, taken on this day, July 21, 1969. Mike Collin's alternate photo is extremely well known, but this one - shown remastered and cropped - is an absolute beauty!

"Humanity is not governed to prevent its ruin; rather, it is ruined because it is governed." --Johann Most (1887)

✨ Anarchy Works by Peter Gelderloos is now available in a new edition from @detritusbooks.bsky.social with a slick new cover art by @krime.bsky.social! See what else is new right now at AKPress.org!

Interested in old political cartoons about anarchists? Check out my "anarchists in cartoon" feature on my website (click on "research"). Great as a teaching tool! txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens

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COMING SOON! My new book--a long-overdue biography of socialist and then anarchist Johann Most--will be released on September 12, 2025 from University of Illinois Press. Get a copy, spread the word! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... My substack: tomgoyens.substack.com

Talks coming up in Wisconsin and Indiana! They Will Beat the Memory Out of Us (Pluto Press 2024) and Organization, Continuity, Community (English edition Detritus Books 2024, originally published in Catalan in 2022). Help spread the word! Talk description in the thread... Feb 17 in Milwaukee

Here is your next book to read, listen to, advertise, recommend, praise, suggest, reference, share, like, restack, order, post, comment on, or gift. It's classic and prescient!

Found this photo from 1937 during the Spanish Civil War with caption "departure to the front". Source: "Die Soziale Revolution. Frontzeitung" Jan 1, 1937.

Kentucky voted for Trump 65-34

Injecting new criteria into grant applications based on partisanship & political agendas does all the things Trump is accusing institutions of doing through DEI: create ideological rules that people have to follow in order to have their science considered. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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